|In this development cycle we also put our focus on the focus. The methods <code>setFocus</code>, <code>forceFocus</code>, and <code>isFocusControl</code> of the <code>Control</code> class allow You to focus a control and query whether the control has the input focus. The <code>getFocusControl</code> on class <code>Display</code> tells You which control currently has the input focus.

|In this development cycle we also put our focus on the focus. The methods <code>setFocus</code>, <code>forceFocus</code>, and <code>isFocusControl</code> of the <code>Control</code> class allow You to focus a control and query whether the control has the input focus. The <code>getFocusControl</code> on class <code>Display</code> tells You which control currently has the input focus.

When adding a <code>FocusListener</code> to a control, it will be notified about <code>focusLost</code> and <code>focusGained</code> events.

When adding a <code>FocusListener</code> to a control, it will be notified about <code>focusLost</code> and <code>focusGained</code> events.

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As of now, not all controls do visually indicate that they currently are focused.

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Revision as of 12:53, 1 March 2007

RAP 1.0 M2 - New and Noteworthy

Here are some of the more noteworthy things available in milestone build M2 which will be available for download on March 2, 2007. If You don't want to wait, all the listed features are available in CVS HEAD.

JFace

Dialogs

RAP JFace now includes the base classes to implement dialogs like Window, WindowManager, Dialog, and IconAndMessageDialog and provides the most often used dialogs.

Due to the distributed nature of RAP, the way how the result is passed back to the caller
differs from JFace. RAP JFace provides an IWindowCallback interface whose windowClosed method is called with the returnCode as a parameter when a dialog was closed.

RWT

ModifyEvent

RWT now supports the ModifyEvent. The two widgets that benefit from this are Text and Spinner.

Though implementing a ModifyListener does not differ from SWT as You can see below, the inner workings do differ. In contrary to SWT that sends a ModifyEvent immediately, RWT uses a delay of currently 500 ms after which the server is notified about changes.

The default button was implemented, that You can now tell the Shell which of its buttons should behave as the default button. Just to have something to write for the next milestone news, the default button is not yet highlighted;)

Shell enhancements

For dependent Shells (those created with the Shell( Shell ) or Shell( Shell, int ) constructor), the escape key closes the shell.

Double click

For List, Tree, and CTabFolder RWT now recognizes a double-click that is reported via the widgetDefaultSelected method of the SelectionEvent.

If You doubt the authenticity of the screenshot You are free to try it out yourself with the online-demo.
File:RapDoubleClick.png

Focus control and FocusEvent

In this development cycle we also put our focus on the focus. The methods setFocus, forceFocus, and isFocusControl of the Control class allow You to focus a control and query whether the control has the input focus. The getFocusControl on class Display tells You which control currently has the input focus.

When adding a FocusListener to a control, it will be notified about focusLost and focusGained events.

As of now, not all controls do visually indicate that they currently are focused.